This collection of tourism brochures, pamphlets, maps and newspaper clippings documents the islands of the West Indies. The collection encompasses the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the islands and nations of South America, and includes Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Surinam.
The Bryant West Indies Slides Collection, Ccirca 1940-1981, contains 35mm slides of various islands in the Caribbean as well as Florida and Venezuela. The slides were taken on collecting trips sponsored by the William L. Bryant Foundation, where books, music and art indigenous to the regions were gathered. They are organized by geographical location. The content of the slides vary and include landscapes, religion, houses, people and everyday life.
The William J. Bryant Archaeological Artifacts collection consists of ceramic fragments (sherds), bones, stone tools, and shells excavated by William J. Bryant or his associates from sites in Florida, the Virgin Islands and the West Indies. This collection is useful to anthropological and historical research on Caribbean and Floridian artifacts. William Junior Bryant, or June, was born May 4, 1904 in Springfield Vermont. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925 and started working for Bryant Chucking Grinding Co., a machine tool company founded by his father, William Leroy Bryant in 1928, eventually becoming president of the company in 1946. Bryant started the William L. Bryant Foundation in 1950, named for his father, which funded excavations in Florida, Spain and the West Indies. The foundation collected these items from sites in Florida, the Virgin Islands, and the West Indies. William J. Bryant died in 1998 and the foundation dissolved in 2005.
